Lila Downs has one of the world’s most singular voices and innovative approaches to music. Her music and vocal artistry have many influences, including the folk and ranchera music of Mexico and South America, and American folk, jazz, blues, and hip-hop. Downs, who grew up in both Minnesota and Oaxaca, has gone on to win a Grammy and a Latin Grammy award. She has performed at many of the world’s most prestigious festivals and venues, and has been invited to sing at the White House.

RBMA is the radio station of the Red Bull Music Academy and is now broadcasting live from San Francisco, straight from their studio in the Mission District, every day from 2pm to 10pm 'till Mar 11th. Guests include Kevin Saunderson, Wooden Shjips, Honey Soundsystem, Amoeba music's own superstars, and many others.

Tune in to RBMA on Tuesday, March 3rd from 2-3pm to hear Amoeba presents Ceiling Eyes live! With their debut album First Lust Encounters, Ceiling Eyes unleashed their esoteric dreamworld on the masses. No two of their experimental ambient performances are ever alike.

Then on Tuesday, March 10th from 6-7pm, hear Amoeba's tribute to 1980's Sunset Strip with Lip Service (aka Brent James & Kells Bells). Spandex and hairspray reign supreme on the outside, but you might be surprised to see what lies beneath as Lip Service spins old favorites and deep cuts from the debauchery that was Hollywood in the late '80s. Listen with fondness or recoil in horror, but be prepared to get rocked to the foundation!

Join Love City and Amoeba Music on March 5th at 715 Harrison for an art and music showcase like you've never seen before. It's the Love City PsycheCircus featuring six mind-blowing bands, live painting, and (wait for it)...$2 draft beer all night!

Leading the charge in the musical merriment that night is psychedelic Western cinematic rock ‘n rollers SPINDRIFT and everyone's favorite drive-thru metal band, Mac Sabbath! You gotta see these guys to believe em. Also featuring garage rockers Coo Coo Birds, Renaissance man Bill Baird, soulful power pop with Joshua Cook & The Key of Now, and heavy psych with OUTLAW.

Plus, feast your eyes and soul on the live painting by Zachary Sweet and Justin Herbst.

Since her introduction to the American music scene in 2007 with her album Mi Niña Lola (My Little Girl Lola), Buika has experienced a meteoric rise, earning lavish praise from The New York Times, The Miami Herald, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as NPR, which quickly included her in their "50 Great Voices" radio gallery. Despite just a few concert appearances, she earned two Latin Grammy nominations in 2008. Her next release, Niña de Fuego (Fire Child) paved the way for relocation to Miami in 2011 (she lovingly calls the US "the country of happiness and noise").

Before her career took off in the US, she had already achieved success in Europe, performing on screen in the Pedro Almodóvar film The Skin I Live In and dueting with pop singer Seal. Music from those projects and more were collected in 2011 on the essential 2-CD set En Mi Piel (In My Skin) to satisfy a growing demand for her music in her new country. Rare is the artist to garner comparisons to Nina Simone, Chavela Vargas, and Cesaria Evora, but Buika has been compared to all of them. She has clearly inherited their steely independence and uncompromising creative vision.

On Saturday, February 21st, the listener-sponsored, noncommercial, independent and local radio station KPOO will broadcast LIVE from the Amoeba SF stage from 2-6 pm! Join us in welcoming DJ X1 (Old School, Hip-Hop, R&B), McSchmormac (exploring the origins of recorded music with recordings from 1900 to 1950), and DJ Jose Ruiz (Latin Salsa). Come down and shake it with us! There will be dancing in the aisles.

KPOO broadcasts 24 hours a day to San Francisco, Oakland, and the greater Bay Area. Founded by Poor People’s Radio, Inc., KPOO’s ongoing mission has been to open the airwaves to the disenfranchised and underserved. They broadcasts news, public meetings, election, live events, interviews, public service announcements, and music not heard on any other radio stations. KPOO Radio is run by a volunteer staff.